attributive
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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
It is, therefore, from the point of an attributive equality that we are enabled to say: They are two.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
It was a map of that region of sky-scrapers which you seem to think not justly beyond the scope of attributive sublimity.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
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